More than two out of three of recent college students took out loans to help cover the costs of furthering their educationâaveraging $29,900 per borrower, including private and federal debts. When it comes to paying back student loans, both the total amount borrowed (i.e., the principal) and the interest rates (i.e., the percentage charged on […]
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It’s your first car; your first foray into the automotive world. You’re excited, eager, and you spend your time looking for cars that you can show off to your friends, cars made for speed, power, performance. But none of those things really matter when you’re buying your first car. Your main goal should be function […]
Cheapest Cars for Car Insurance is a post from Pocket Your Dollars.
A while back, I mentioned that it appeared as if we were running out of homes for sale, despite being just years (or days) out of the housing crisis. I was being somewhat facetious, but itâs true that there are very few homes for sale these days, at least in areas where people want to [&hellip
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Just a few short hours ago, the Federal Reserve released the hotly anticipated FOMC “minutes” from its two-day meeting that took place back on April 30th and May 1st, 2013. The contents werenât all that exciting, though they seemed to be enough to result in a 200+ point stock market swing. The markets opened considerably [&hellip
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In a rather odd interview on CNBC Thursday, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff said itâs âdefinitely a great time to sell,â despite the fact that home prices are expected to rise a fair amount in the near future. Funnily enough, back in March his company asked a bunch of economists about the direction of home prices, [&hellip
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There are close to 250 million drivers in the United States and every day they suffer from over 6,000 injuries resulting from tens of thousands of car accidents. For the most part, medical bills, property damage, and liability will be covered by insurance and all drivers will go their separate ways with minimal financial loss. But uninsured drivers throw […]
Penalties for Driving Without Car Insurance is a post from Pocket Your Dollars.
Instead of allowing the world’s happenings to control your finances; take these necessary steps to give you financial security and sanity.
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Many are saying that if we don’t come up with a bailout package, that the economy will crash because of the lack of credit available to companies and consumers. Others are saying that a bailout of struggling companies by taxpayers isn’t a good idea either, and that a plan involving insuring the troubled assets would […]
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The next big crisis? The past year has been a tough one for our economy. We have seen the companies suffer as the mortgage industry undergoes a huge crisis. Thousands of foreclosures have happened to people who got into mortgages they couldn’t afford. Adjustable rate mortgage and interest only loan rates started going up, and […]
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